Dose of Reason: Perry and Gardasil

The Human Papilloma Virus is an infection, and should not be a moral issue. In contrast, the vaccine against four strains of the virus, Gardasil, has become a political issue, even though the Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) now recommends it for all boys and girls.

Governor Rick Perry has been criticized for his February, 2007 Executive Order that made the vaccine mandatory for girls before entering the 6th grade. Very little is said about the part of the EO that affirmed the right of and facilitated parents who wish to “opt out” of not only Gardasil, but other vaccines as well.

We expect the Governor to direct the people that he appoints, right? The Governor is responsible for management of the Executive Branch, including the Department of State Health Services. He appoints the head of the DSHS, who supervises the people who decide which vaccines will be mandatory. Texas’ Legislature modified Chapter 38.001 of the Texas Education Code over the years to mandate certain vaccines and allow the DSHS to add other mandated vaccines without Legislative oversight. Just before the Gardasil controversy, the Department had mandated Chicken Pox and Hepatitis A, which are both manufactured using cultures of human fetal tissue obtained at an abortion.

The Governor’s Executive Order (RP 65) that caused all the controversy also ordered the director of DSHS to make it easier for parents to opt out of vaccines. The Legislature had changed the law from “opt in” to a requirement to “opt out” once for all the school years. Next, they changed to a two year limit on the opt out, and then in 2005, the Legislature restricted the period to one year and required a new State form bearing a “seal.” Parents had to go to Austin or start early in the summer. There were bureaucrats who maintained that the only way to get the form with the seal was to go to Austin, find the right office and make the request in person. Perry used his EO to tell the Director of DSHS to make the request (and the seal) available on-line, making it easier to “opt out.”

In fact, the reason for the Executive Order was to speed up private insurance coverage and to make it easier for parents to exercise their right to opt out.

The Federal government doesn’t have the authority to mandate vaccines in the States. Not yet, not exactly. However, thirty days after the National Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommended the vaccine, Texas was required by Federal law to buy and distribute the vaccine in the “Vaccines for Children” program. The program provides vaccines without cost to uninsured children up to age 21, those who are insured by Medicaid, and those whose private insurance does not pay for vaccines at all. In effect, the only families who have to pay for Gardasil – for whom the State of Texas will not pay, anyway, under Federal law – are those whose private insurance will only pay for mandated vaccines.

Gardasil is manufactured the same way that insulin for diabetics is made these days: using recombinant DNA. In this case, common bakers’ yeast makes the proteins that cause the immune response. Gardasil had been thoroughly studied even in 2007, and is not only included in the Vaccines for Children program, it is the most-requested vaccine for girls. We are even seeing cross-protection from other strains. It has recently been recommended for boys. The recommended time to give the HPV vaccine is at 11 or 12 years old, when children are scheduled to receive other shots (tetanus and MMR boosters) and before they were likely to be infected.

The only reason that we do “Pap smears” (the papanicolaou test) is to look for changes in the cell nuclear DNA of the cervix, the opening to the uterus or womb. Over the last 15 years, we have found that 99.7% of these changes are due to HPV infections. In the US, 70% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV 16 and 18. (50% by HPV 16.) These are the two types of HPV that result in the most damage and cost, due to repeat paps and the subsequent biopsies, freezing, “LEEP,” or other treatments in which the surface of the cervix (the opening to the uterus or womb) is burned off to remove cancerous and pre-cancerous cells. These treatments lead to infertility and premature births.

Because 15% of girls begin sex before age 15 and half of girls who have sex before 20 say their first time was involuntary, the first trial of Gardasil involved 1200 girls between the ages of 9 and 15. The girls 15 and under had a better response to the vaccine than the older girls and women 16 and above. The researchers compared blood levels of antibodies. The research ethics committee ensured that no paps or pelvics were done on the young girls. (Every one of the young women under the age of 21 when I sent them for colposcopy for cancerous changes had been raped before they were 15 years old.)

The reports of deaths and injuries from Gardasil are poorly documented. The great majority of the adverse effects in the reports include pain, redness, and tingling at the injection site and fainting and headaches. People often faint and complain of headaches after seeing a needle, even without being stuck. It looks awful sometimes, like a seizure. The FDA has ruled that none of the deaths that have been confirmed were caused by the vaccine. In addition, this article from the Canadian Medical Association Journal contains a table showing the numbers of serious events and the numbers of deaths in several studies on the use of the HPV vaccine.

Remember your statistics classes. With 33 million doses, there are bound to be deaths that coincide with the timing of the vaccine use. The teen death rate from all causes is 62 per 100,000 across the US. Most of those are boys, but still: In 10 million girls, 30 deaths are not outside the rate for the age group. They are tragic, but consistent with life on this Earth.

More likely the girls who had severe reactions or death had other risk factors, due to the population presenting to clinics giving the vaccine: those who present with worries about STD’s, the newly sexually active and those entering college. The records show that many were given new scripts at the same visit for birth control pills and other vaccines and medicines, according to the analyses in the medical literature. (Also, remember the silicon, SSRI, and the general vaccine scares that have been blown out of proportion through the years and later proven to be untrue.)

The reports on the possible vaccine-related deaths are available for viewing at” the “Vaccine Adverse Event Report Site” (VAERS),(drop down to the table at the middle of the Page, option #3) using “HPV4” (This is the Merck vaccine), at Option#4, check “YES” at “life threatening” (or you could check “death”) and (top of page)”Sort by submission date.”

Here’s a few examples:

Administered by: Unknown Purchased by: Unknown Symptoms: Adverse reaction Write-up: It was reported from an article, published on 29-JUN-2009 that there were “hundreds” of life-threatening reactions said to be associated with GARDASIL. This is one of several reports received from the same source. Attempts are being made to obtain additional identifying information to distinguish the individual patients mentioned in this report. Additional information will be provided if available.

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Why would anyone accept the FDA, or even the USDA findings, and take their advise, when it is obvious that our nation is under attack, by Marxist’s, who have invaded every aspect of our government, corporations, and any & all necessary institutions for the sake of their intended goal of instituting communism in America. If you are not practicing suspicion you are making a grave mistake. We have been caught asleep, and the enemies of freedom have the edge on us, by having a great head start on their agenda. There are healthy reasons to hold accountable our elected officials. It is the parents job to guard & protect their children, and it is not the job of a government that has it’s hands dirty with the blood of millions of aborted CHILDREN, (not tissue masses). Worry about your own family, not mine. I was born in & live in America. i’ll die here to protecting our freedom to live under a Constitution written by men who were moved by Jehovah himself. These men, while under the direction of God, wrote a Bill of Rights that brought the inhabitants of other nations to die trying to get here. Here, where we are the youngest nation, only less than 250 years old, but we have superseded all of the older nations that are many thousand years old. This happened because it was meant to be, as so directed by a sovereign God, that men would have a place of rescue from tyranny. At this time our blessing is about to be removed, as Jesus said that a tree that does not produce is about to be cut down and thrown into the fire. He said that the ax is already laid at the base of the tree. i am going to fight to get the tree some living water, but i cannot make our nation drink, and neither can you.

Joe, The FDA has a fair record, but those of us on all sides evaluate their data for ourselves.There are some things that can be measured, observed, and documented. This is how science and history work.

Just as we know what happened at the Constitutional Conventions 230 years ago, we know what happens in our own day and time. We take the reports, we verify them, we test them. We come up with a picture as close to truth as we can.

Arlen, I do wish you’d read the article. The Christian Medical and Dental Association has a great statement – noting that we can raise our daughters right, but their future husbands may not live a fully abstinent life. There’s also the problem of sexual assault.
Nevertheless, about 50% of the population has genital HPV at any given time. The only reason – well, 99% of the reason – for pap smears is to check for cell changes due to HPV.

Found this via web searching, and one thing left out of the article is the Gardasil/paralysis connection, which is what I was discussing with my primary-care doc recently. I’ve struggled with the idea that there is no connection between the epic autism and the grueling FDA vaccine schedule – likewise, I struggle with how a perfectly-healthy girl could have Gardasil administered and immediately (by some apparent fluke) become paralyzed. True, correlation causality, but when you know someone personally with a child that immediately went into convulsions and extreme behavioral changes following a vaccine, it’s hard not to draw the connection.

I like Perry, but the Gardasil mess makes my vote a reluctant one if he’s nominated,

An immediate reaction is very unlikely to be due to the vaccine – it’s more likely to be some sequel to the vaso-vagal (fainting, low blood pressure) reaction to the perceived, sub-conscience threat that some people have from medical procedures and often from getting a shot. Fainting can mimic seizures. However, the shot doesn’t become absorbed for hours, the immune reaction takes much longer.